Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5x14 "Crush" Full Reaction
Added 2020-09-09 00:00:52 +0000 UTC
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In addition to everything else in this episode, the way Dru gives up on Spike due to his actions is an echo/mirror of how Darla rejected Angel. It's one of the things I love about both the Buffy series & the Angel series, while there are characters who cross over thematic elements cross over too.
Ian Swallow
2020-09-24 09:11:48 +0000 UTCI absolutely love this episode and Michelle did do an amazing job I've never been adopted or anything but I know what it's like to get that depressed and emotional when your a kid considering I had some serious horrors in my childhood bit the way she portrayed the emotions of going though a serious and extremely hard situation is amazing it's hard for people to portray those kind of emotions if you've never felt them yourself so when I first saw this episode I was shocked and Impressed by how believable she was
Steph
2020-09-17 19:39:02 +0000 UTCThis is one of my favourite episodes. It's got the realisation of Spike's crush as well a Dru being back and Harmony's lines. I also love how casually Buffy sits in the train seat with the tape on, in the exact position the dead person who sat there was.
Sharon Owen
2020-09-11 20:09:02 +0000 UTCI know after the ep you were commenting on Spike's insightfulness and what he might be seeing (or thinking he's seeing) in Buffy that signals a return interest and I had a thought on the manner. I think that, on some level, Buffy "trusts" or at the very least relies on Spike. When Glory was going after Joyce and Dawn, Buffy took them to Spike for protection. When Dawn was missing in this ep, the first person Buffy went to was Spike. She didn't go to Giles (who she sees as a father figure), or to Willow or Tara (who could've almost certainly tried some sort of locator spell). She went to Spike. We know that in the first instance it was because Spike is the strongest fighter aside from her and the only one who could stand a chance at protecting them, and I assume in the second case she figured Spike might've been able to track Dawn's scent or something similar. But in Spike's mind he probably just thinks/hopes that its because she loves him back. And as some of the other comments have mentioned, Spike didn't exactly have a normal relationship with Dru. Hell back in season 3 he states that he's gonna get her back by "torturing her until she loves me again". And Buffy even jokes in this ep that "she beats him up sometimes which to Spike is practically third base". Combine all that and it's no wonder Spike thinks there's something between them.
Nicole Iannone
2020-09-09 08:14:46 +0000 UTCYou get the sense that there's part of him that genuinely wants not just to be loved, but to earn that love. But it's mixed up with a very twisted history, his vampire instincts, and the fact that he had a century-long relationship with a woman who did not have the world's most normative expectations of a relationship, to put it mildly. And he's trying to navigate--without the guidance of a soul--feelings for someone who hunts and kills vampires; it would make a sordid kind of sense to him that killing Drusilla would somehow impress her instead of convincing her that he's a dangerous lunatic who would kill a woman he loved. (It's probably also connected to having come of age in the Victorian world, where there was a general idea that a lover should be single-mindedly ardent, and also prove himself worthy of the lady. Look at the men in Dracula, trying to impress Lucy.)
FernWithy
2020-09-09 05:35:24 +0000 UTCSpike is a very creepy and misguided character most of the time and in the hands of a lesser actor would be someone probably most fans would abhor. But James Marsters has always been able to show the duality between the soulless evil monster he is and the human side that he was-It makes Spike so complex and interesting despite the creepiness he sometimes displays! JMO of course
Melissa Murphy
2020-09-09 02:19:23 +0000 UTCThe voices went all out of sync in the middle but I skipped a couple of minutes and it was good again β€οΈ Thanks Liam π
CeNedra
2020-09-09 01:16:33 +0000 UTCGreat theories and insight! Canβt wait for the next episode (:
Maddie Austin
2020-09-09 01:04:17 +0000 UTC
